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Showing posts with label baseball. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Now Available: Satchel Paige - 2024 TOPPS MLB at Rickwood Negro League Collection Card

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This year, MLB celebrates Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the United States and former home of the Birmingham Black Ba...
Wednesday, July 05, 2023

NJ Governor Phil Murphy Signs Joint Resolution Establishing July 5th as Larry Doby Day

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Governor Phil Murphy today signed a joint resolution (AJR221) designating July 5th of each year as Larry Doby Day. This day of recogniti...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

New Museum Will Further Tell the Powerful Stories of the Negro Leagues Baseball Players

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The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) announced it has been awarded a $1 million grant from Bank of America in support of the museu...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

New Book Release: True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson by Kostya Kennedy

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True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's―and America's―most significant figur...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Ribbon-cutting held for Jackie Robinson Museum in New York City

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A museum dedicated to the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson opened in New York City on Tuesday. Located at 75 Varick Street in Hudson Squ...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Nike Honors Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson With Nike Dunk Low (Jackie Robinson)

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Releasing the day of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Los Angeles, the Nike Dunk Low (Jackie Robinson) honors the impact of the ...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

Minor League Baseball adds to inclusion efforts with 'The Nine'

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Minor League Baseball has announced the launch of “The Nine,” a new, Black-community focused outreach platform specifically designed to ho...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

2022 Negro Leagues Baseball Commemorative Coin Program Helps Support The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

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Join the United States Mint in commemorating the rich history of African American baseball and its impact on civil rights with these comme...
Monday, December 06, 2021

Buck O’Neil going into National Baseball Hall of Hall of Fame

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Buck O’Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers during a monumental, eight-decade career on and off the field has been elected to the Nationa...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Today, April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day!

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Today is Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Major League Baseball and the Jackie Robinson ...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Spike Lee releases the script of his unmade Jackie Robinson film online

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On Sunday Oscar winning director Spike Lee went online to present film and baseball fans with the script of his unmade Jackie Robinson fi...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Kerwin Danley to be named first African-American MLB crew chief

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Major League Baseball announced has announced that umpire Kerwin Danley will be promoted to crew chief. Danley will be the first African-A...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

Inaugural HBCU Baseball World Series: Southern University vs. North Carolina A&T

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In its inaugural year, the Historically Black College and University World Series is a matchup featuring Southern University and North C...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City Flooded by Vandals

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Officials at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri found their building flooded after vandals cut through water pi...
Friday, August 03, 2018

Orioles' Adam Jones contributes $8.5K to help Mamie Johnson Little League team

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When a Washington, D.C., Little League team reached out for help to fund a trip to an upcoming tournament, Baltimore Orioles outfielder...
Friday, July 27, 2018

All-black team makes history with D.C. Little League championship victory

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The Mamie Johnson Little League team has made history. It just became the first all-African American team to win the D.C. Little Leagu...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Number of African American baseball players in MLB increases

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Every year about this time we are normally discussing yet another decline in the number of African American players in Major League Base...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Florida Marlins Co-Owner Derek Jeter: It's OK if Marlins players want to take a knee

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Derek Jeter wouldn’t say whether he would take a knee during the national anthem if he still were playing, but the Marlins’ new co-owner...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Baltimore Orioles' Adam Jones donates $20K to Negro Leagues museum

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Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones, the target of racial taunts during a recent game in Boston, has donated $20,000 to the Negro L...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Dodgers unveil statue of Jackie Robinson at Dodger Stadium

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The Los Angeles Dodgers unveiled a Jackie Robinson Statue at the Left Field Reserve Plaza the first in Dodger Stadium history on the 70t...